Des Moines to Phoenix nonstop
Yes: American, Southwest and SkyWest fly direct from Des Moines (DSM) to Phoenix (PHX) about 2 times a day, year-round.
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Des Moines to Phoenix in numbers
Measured from US DOT filings, not estimated from distance.
- Distance and flight time
- 1,149 miles nonstop, about 2 hr 55 min gate to gate. Flight time is an estimate from the great-circle distance; the filings carry distance, not scheduled elapsed time.
- Seasonality
- Flew every month of the last year: busiest in March 2026 (28 flights a week), quietest in July 2026 (14 flights a week).
- Sep 2025: 16 flights a week
- Oct 2025: 24 flights a week
- Nov 2025: 21 flights a week
- Dec 2025: 22 flights a week
- Jan 2026: 20 flights a week
- Feb 2026: 23 flights a week
- Mar 2026: 28 flights a week
- Apr 2026: 25 flights a week
- May 2026: 21 flights a week
- Jun 2026: 14 flights a week
- Jul 2026: 14 flights a week
- Aug 2026: 14 flights a week
Flights a week by month, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, from US DOT on-time filings. - Who operates the flights
- American 77%, Southwest 13%, SkyWest 11% (regional operator) of departures, counted across the August 2026 and February 2026 US DOT on-time filings.
- Fares
- Half of the 1,310 tickets in the US DOT fare survey for Q2 2025 sold between $125 and $275 one way, median $175. The survey runs a couple of quarters behind, so read it as the shape of the route's pricing rather than today's quote.
- Jul to Sep (Q3 2024): median $225 one way, middle half $150 to $325, 642 tickets
- Oct to Dec (Q4 2024): median $175 one way, middle half $125 to $300, 1,523 tickets
- Jan to Mar (Q1 2025): median $200 one way, middle half $125 to $325, 1,613 tickets
- Apr to Jun (Q2 2025): median $175 one way, middle half $125 to $275, 1,310 tickets
Oct to Dec and Apr to Jun trips were the cheapest (median $175 one way) and Jul to Sep trips cost the most (median $225), in the DOT ticket survey for Q3 2024 to Q2 2025. Bars show the middle half of one-way fares; the mark is the median.
Flying the other way? Phoenix to Des Moines nonstop.
Also nonstop from Des Moines (DSM)
Busiest other routes out of the same airport
- Chicago (ORD) about 9 times a day
- Denver (DEN) about 7 times a day
- Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) about 4 times a day
- Atlanta (ATL) about 4 times a day
- Charlotte (CLT) about 3 times a day
- Philadelphia (PHL) about 2 times a day
- Chicago (MDW) about 2 times a day
- Washington (DCA) about 12 times a week
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